RIO+20 Social Watch Asia Regional Meeting 2-3 March 2012 Pullman Bangkok King Power Hotel Isagani R Serrano President, PRRM Co-Convenor, Social Watch Philippines.

RIO+20 Social Watch Asia Regional Meeting

2-3 March 2012• Pullman Bangkok King Power Hotel

Isagani R Serrano President, PRRM

Co-Convenor, Social Watch Philippines

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It’s been 40 years really

• 1972—UNCHE Stockholm• 1992---UNCED or Earth Summit Rio• 2002---Rio+10 Johannesburg• 2012---UNCSD RIO+20

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RIO+20 Agenda

• Review/assessment• GE---Green Economy w/in PR & SD• IFSD---Institutional Framework for Sustainable

Development• New commitments, new promises

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The RIO+20 process

• From 2009 UNGA resolution---3 Prepcoms, regional preparatory meetings (RPMs), parallel major groups’ events and SecGen’s specials, leading up to the June 2012 UNCSD summit in Rio

• So far, done with most, one final prepcom back-to-back with summit in Rio

• Outcome document: November 2011 Zero Draft kicking off formal negotiations mainly in cyberspace , with SecGen’s reference faves: ‘The Future We Want’ & ‘Resilient People, Resilient Planet: A future worth choosing’

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Why such agenda?

• Greening Take Two: we failed to green development in the last 20 years, so we need to try again.

• Maybe it’s institutions: UN didn’t act as one, so now let’s do ‘whole UN’ approach to deliver SD this time around.

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1992 baseline: Humanity at a defining moment, Earth in the balance

20 years after Rio

Serrano, 2009 PRRM

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So many left behind

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SusDev Indicator: Reduction of poverty & inequality

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SusDev Indicator: reduction of pollution, regeneration of natural resources

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Too much of this up there…

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Social Agenda from Rio ‘92

• Rio Declaration (running thru 26 principles)• Agenda 21 (running thru all of 40 chapters, esp. Part

1 on socio-economic development, Part 3 on major groups, and Part 4 on means of implementation)

• UNFCCC (not just about CO2 in the air)• UNFCBD (not just about flowers, birds & the bees)• Statement on Forest Principles (not just about saving

the lungs of the Earth)

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Securing the Social Agenda from Rio ‘92

• 1993---human rights for all (Vienna)• 1994---population (Cairo)• 1995---social dev (Copenhagen) GE & women

empowerment (Beijing)• 1996---right to shelter, sustainable HS (Istanbul) &

food security for all (Rome)• 1997---EFA, lifelong learning (Hamburg)• 2000---rights & freedoms (Millennium Declaration &

MDGs) etc. etc. etc……

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What more?

• Social protection---restoring universality• State obligation for financing development &

public finance (PF) for social development and social protection

• Socially accountable public spending in face of worsening of 4Fs-crisis?

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Good luck!

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